Critics Review

4.00

Movie Review

Masaan, an Indo-French collaboration that won accolades at Cannes earlier on in May, has adept story-telling by Neeraj Ghaywan, a Anurag Kashyap alumni. The film unspools in an unhurried manner, occasionally tugging hard at your heartstrings. The urgency with which youngsters from India's heartland feel the need to discover Facebook, forbidden fruit and freedom has been captured well.(more)

Source: Meena Iyer, Times Of India

4.00

A hard-hitting narrative about life, death and hope

Varun Grover has written a tight screenplay that leaves no space for loopholes or stretched moments throughout the 109-minutes of the movie. His dialogues touch an emotional chord and bring out small-town world where the story is set. (more)

Source: Sweta Kaushal, Hindustan Times

4.50

This dazzling debut film is an unmissable gem.

Masaan is not the kind of film that is out to grab the audience by the scruff of the neck and drag them through the fire smouldering disturbingly under the surface of its troubled universe. (more)

Source: Saibal Chatterjee, NDTV Movies